Editing Courtney Love (section)

==Artistry==
===Influences===
Love has been candid about her diverse musical influences, the earliest being [[Patti Smith]], [[the Runaways]], and [[the Pretenders]], artists she discovered while in juvenile hall as a young teenager.{{sfn|Behind the Music|2010|loc=event occurs at 11:29}} As a child, her first exposure to music was records that her parents received each month through [[Columbia House|Columbia Record Club]].<ref name=firsttime>{{cite interview|orig-year=2014|interviewer=[[Matt Everitt]]|last=Love|first=Courtney|title=The First Time With... Courtney Love|publisher=[[BBC Radio 6]]|date=January 24, 2018|volume=8|issue=1}}</ref> The first record Love owned was [[Leonard Cohen]]'s ''[[Songs of Leonard Cohen]]'' (1967), which she obtained from her mother: "He was so lyric-conscious and morbid, and I was a pretty morbid kid", she recalled.<ref name=firsttime/> As a teenager, she named [[Flipper (band)|Flipper]], [[Kate Bush]], [[Soft Cell]], [[Joni Mitchell]], [[Laura Nyro]],{{sfn|Cooper|1994|p=42}} [[Lou Reed]], and [[Dead Kennedys]] among her favorite artists.{{sfn|Brite|1998|p=65}} While in Dublin at age fifteen, Love attended a [[Virgin Prunes]] concert, an event she credited as being a pivotal influence: "I had never seen so much sex, snarl, poetry, evil, restraint, grace, filth, raw power and the very essence of rock and roll", she recalled. "[I had seen] [[U2]] [who] gave me lashes of love and inspiration, and a few nights later the Virgin Prunes fucked{{en dash}}me{{en dash}}up."<ref name=atkinson>{{Cite news|newspaper=The Guardian|title=Gavin Friday: 'You can't be what you were'|date=March 25, 2010|author=Atkinson, Mike|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/mar/25/gavin-friday-virgin-prunes|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180614071806/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/mar/25/gavin-friday-virgin-prunes|archive-date=June 14, 2018}}</ref> Decades later, in 2009, Love introduced the band's frontman [[Gavin Friday]] at a [[Carnegie Hall]] event, and performed a song with him.<ref name=atkinson/>

Though often associated with punk music, Love has noted that her most significant musical influences have been [[post-punk]] and [[new wave music|new wave]] artists.<ref name=bell>{{cite web|work=Vogue|title=Courtney Love Has a New Video Series Covering Her Favorite Songs|last=Bell|first=Keaton|date=June 2, 2021|url-status=live|archive-date=June 2, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602141210/https://www.vogue.com/article/courtney-love-bruises-of-roses|url=https://www.vogue.com/article/courtney-love-bruises-of-roses}}</ref> Commenting in 2021, Love said: {{blockquote|There's this idea of "Courtney is punk and stuck in 1995!" but that's not the case. I was more [influenced by] new wave or post-punk. My number one greatest song of all time is "[[Love Will Tear Us Apart]]" by [[Joy Division]], and I will take no fucking prisoners in that battle. But the band that affected me more than even Leonard Cohen and [[Bob Dylan]] was [[Echo & the Bunnymen|Echo and the Bunnymen]].<ref name=bell/>}} Over the years, Love has also named several other new wave and post-punk bands as influences, including [[the Smiths]],<ref name="loder">{{cite interview|last=Love|first=Courtney|interviewer=[[Kurt Loder]]|work=[[MTV]]|title=The Hole Story|date=September 1, 1994}}</ref> [[Siouxsie and the Banshees]],{{sfn|Love|2006|page=35}} [[Television (band)|Television]],{{sfn|Love|2006|page=35}} and [[Bauhaus (band)|Bauhaus]].<ref name="loder"/>

Love's diverse genre interests were illustrated in a 1991 interview with ''Flipside'', in which she stated: "There's a part of me that wants to have a [[grindcore]] band and another that wants to have a [[Raspberries (band)|Raspberries]]-type pop band."<ref name="first">{{cite journal|title=Hole|number=68|date=September 1990|journal=[[Flipside (fanzine)|Flipside]]|author=Al & Gus}}</ref> Discussing the abrasive sound of Hole's debut album, she said she felt she had to "catch up with all my hip peers who'd gone all indie on me, and who made fun of me for liking [[R.E.M. (band)|R.E.M.]] and The Smiths."{{sfn|Cooper|1994|p=42}} She has also embraced the influence of experimental artists and punk rock groups, including [[Sonic Youth]], [[Swans (band)|Swans]],<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Addicted to Noise|date=January 6, 1997|title=Swans Song|first=Howard|last=Wuelfing|quote=The group count the likes of Metallica's Kirk Hammet, Henry Rollins, Courtney Love and even Jeff Buckley among its admirers.}}</ref> [[Big Black]], [[Diamanda Galás]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.clashmusic.com/feature/ask-courtney-love|work=[[Clash (magazine)|Clash]]|last=Love|first=Courtney|title=Ask Courtney Love|date=February 23, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180614050804/http://www.clashmusic.com/features/ask-courtney-love|archive-date=June 14, 2018}}</ref> the [[Germs (band)|Germs]], and [[the Stooges]].<ref>{{cite interview |last=Love |first=Courtney |interviewer=[[Howard Stern]] |title=The Howard Stern Show |publisher=Sirius XM Radio |date=May 30, 2013 |quote=The Stooges were a really big deal to me.}}</ref> While writing ''Celebrity Skin'', she drew influence from [[Neil Young]] and [[My Bloody Valentine (band)|My Bloody Valentine]].<ref name="int" /> She has also cited her contemporary [[PJ Harvey]] as an influence, saying: "The one rock star that makes me know I'm shit is Polly Harvey. I'm nothing next to the purity that she experiences."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.spin.com/2013/05/pj-harvey-rid-of-me-oral-history-steve-albini/|work=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]|title=Let It Bleed: The Oral History of PJ Harvey's 'Rid of Me'|author=Peisner, David|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150917055146/https://www.spin.com/2013/05/pj-harvey-rid-of-me-oral-history-steve-albini/|archive-date=September 17, 2015|date=May 2013}}</ref>

Literature and poetry have often been a major influence on her songwriting; Love said she had "always wanted to be a poet, but there was no money in it."<ref>{{cite interview|last=Love|first=Courtney|interviewer=[[Barbara Walters]]|title=Barbara Walters Presents: The 10 Most Fascinating People of 1995|publisher=ABC News|date=December 5, 1995}}</ref> She has named the works of [[T. S. Eliot]] and [[Charles Baudelaire]] as influential,<ref name="superrock">{{cite interview|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovgo4h9_lQc| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131016214837/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovgo4h9_lQc| archive-date=October 16, 2013 | url-status=dead|work=[[MTV]]|title=Courtney Love: Super Rock Interview|subject=Love, Courtney|year=1995|interviewer=Farry, Jackie}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://fleursdumal.org/audio/|work=Fleurs du Mal.org|title=Audio of Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180729135627/https://fleursdumal.org/audio/|archive-date=July 29, 2018}}</ref> and referenced works by [[Dante Gabriel Rossetti|Dante Rossetti]],{{Sfn|Latham|2003|p=2}} [[William Shakespeare]],<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FD4jKFVQOhMC&pg=PT6|journal=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]|title=Hole: Celebrity Skin|last=Clover|first=Joshua|series=Reviews|page=136|date=October 1998|volume=14|issue=10|via=Google Books|issn=0886-3032}}</ref> [[Rudyard Kipling]], and [[Anne Sexton]] in her lyrics.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]|date=October 1998|pages=90–100|title=The Love Issue|first=Phillip|last=Weiss|issn=0886-3032|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FD4jKFVQOhMC|via=Google Books|volume=14|issue=10}}</ref>

===Musical style and lyrics===
Musically, Love's work with Hole and her solo efforts have been characterized as [[alternative rock]];{{sfn|Ladd-Taylor|Umanski|1998|p=319}} Hole's early material, however, was described by critics as being stylistically closer to grindcore and aggressive [[punk rock]].{{sfn|Lankford|2009|p=77–8}} ''Spin''{{'}}s October 1991 review of Hole's first album noted Love's layering of harsh and abrasive riffs buried more sophisticated musical arrangements.<ref name="oct91">{{cite news|work=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]|date=October 1991|title=Hole Lotta Love|page=32|first=Daisy|last=Von Furth|issn=0886-3032|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yGjqAHJs488C|via=Google Books|volume=7|issue=7}}</ref> In 1998, she stated that Hole had "always been a pop band. We always had a subtext of pop. I always talked about it, if you go back&nbsp;... what'll sound like some weird Sonic Youth tuning back then to you was sounding like the Raspberries to me, in my demented pop framework."<ref name="int" />

Love's lyrics are composed from a female's point of view,<ref name=reynolds>{{Cite news|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/09/arts/pop-music-belting-out-that-most-unfeminine-emotion.html|title=Belting Out That Most Unfeminine Emotion|date=February 9, 1992|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180506110018/https://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/09/arts/pop-music-belting-out-that-most-unfeminine-emotion.html|archive-date=May 6, 2018|author=Reynolds, Simon|author-link=Simon Reynolds|url-status=bot: unknown|access-date=May 6, 2018}}</ref> and her lyrics have been described as "literate and mordant"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/grey-presents-courtney-love-at-cannes-in-8th-annual-music-legends-seminar-263089401.html|agency=PR Newswire|title=Grey Presents Courtney Love at Cannes in 8th Annual Music Legends Seminar|date=June 13, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624041927/http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/grey-presents-courtney-love-at-cannes-in-8th-annual-music-legends-seminar-263089401.html|archive-date=June 24, 2016}}</ref> and noted by scholars for "articulating a [[third-wave feminism|third-wave feminist]] consciousness."<ref name="morris">{{Cite journal|url=http://citation.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/3/2/9/6/4/p329640_index.html|journal=National Communication Association|first=Matthew|last=Morris|date=November 11, 2009|title=Writing (Courtney) Love into the History of Rhetoric: Articulation of a Feminist Consciousness in Live Through This|access-date=September 15, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121120193238/http://citation.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/3/2/9/6/4/p329640_index.html|archive-date=November 20, 2012|url-status=dead}} {{small|(Link to abstract only)}}</ref> [[Simon Reynolds]], in reviewing Hole's debut album, noted: "Ms. Love's songs explore the full spectrum of female emotions, from vulnerability to rage. The songs are fueled by adolescent traumas, feelings of disgust about the body, passionate friendships with women and the desire to escape domesticity. Her lyrical style could be described as emotional nudism."<ref name=reynolds/> Journalist and critic [[Kim France]], in critiquing Love's lyrics, referred to her as a "dark genius" and likened her work to that of Anne Sexton.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=[[Bookforum]]|title=Kim France on ''Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women'' by Elizabeth Wurtzel|pages=7–8|volume=5–7|year=1998|issn=1098-3376|author=France, Kim|author-link=Kim France}}</ref>

Love has remarked that lyrics have always been the most important component of songwriting for her: "The important thing for me&nbsp;... is it has to look good on the page. I mean, you can love [[Led Zeppelin]] and not love their lyrics&nbsp;... but I made a big effort in my career to have what's on the page mean something."<ref>{{cite web|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/fashion/courtney-love-batsheva-fashion-week.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190214012126/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/fashion/courtney-love-batsheva-fashion-week.html|archive-date=February 14, 2019|url-status=bot: unknown|date=February 13, 2019|author=Schneier, Matthew|title=Angry Dolls Meet Their Mother|access-date=February 13, 2019}}</ref> Common themes present in Love's lyrics during her early career included body image, rape, suicide, conformity, pregnancy, prostitution, and death.<ref name="levin">{{cite web|url=http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-hole-story/Content?oid=16345 |work=[[The Stranger (newspaper)|The Stranger]] |title=The Hole Story |author=Levin, Hanna |date=November 20, 2003 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141216085525/http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-hole-story/Content?oid=16345 |archive-date=December 16, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>{{Sfn|Burns|Lafrance|2002|pages=98–103}} In a 1991 interview with [[Everett True]], she said: "I try to place [beautiful imagery] next to fucked up imagery, because that's how I view things&nbsp;... I sometimes feel that no one's taken the time to write about certain things in rock, that there's a certain female point of view that's never been given space."<ref name="sidelines">{{cite news|work=[[Melody Maker]]|date=June 15, 1991|first=Everett|last=True|author-link=Everett True|title=Hole|series=Sidelines|page=8|issn=0025-9012}} {{small|([https://archive.today/20180614220000/https://archivedmusicpress.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/hole-in-sidelines-15th-june-1991.jpg Archived scan])}}.</ref>

Critics have noted that Love's later musical work is more lyrically introspective.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/courtney-love-to-resurrect-hole-for-nobodys-daughter-20090617|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140117071409/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/courtney-love-to-resurrect-hole-for-nobodys-daughter-20090617|archive-date=January 17, 2014|title=Courtney Love To Resurrect Hole For "Nobody's Daughter"|date=June 17, 2009|author=Kreps, Daniel}}</ref> ''Celebrity Skin'' and ''America's Sweetheart'' are lyrically centered on celebrity life, Hollywood, and drug addiction, while continuing Love's interest in vanity and body image. ''Nobody's Daughter'' was lyrically reflective of Love's past relationships and her struggle for sobriety, with the majority of its lyrics written while she was in rehab in 2006.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.avclub.com/hole-nobody-s-daughter-1798164834|work=[[The A.V. Club]]|title=Hole: Nobody's Daughter|first=Jason|last=Heller|date=April 27, 2010|archive-date=November 5, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105144301/http://www.avclub.com/articles/hole-nobodys-daughter,40501/|url-status=bot: unknown|access-date=April 16, 2020}}</ref>

===Performance===
[[File:Courtney Love Hole (4753167616) (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|Love, playing a [[Rickenbacker 360]] in 2010, has played both [[Fender (company)|Fender]] and [[Rickenbacker]] guitars throughout her career]]
Love has a [[contralto]] vocal range.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/jan/09/courtney-love-theatricalised-concept-album|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|title=Courtney Love's 'theatricalised concept album' sounds practically amphibian|author=Soloski, Alexis|date=January 9, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170608025657/https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/jan/09/courtney-love-theatricalised-concept-album|archive-date=June 8, 2017|url-status=bot: unknown|access-date=June 28, 2017}}</ref> According to Love, she never wanted to be a singer, but rather aspired to be a skilled guitarist: "I'm such a lazy bastard though that I never did that", she said. "I was always the only person with the nerve to sing, and so I got stuck with it."<ref name="superrock" /> She has been regularly noted by critics for her husky vocals as well as her "[[banshee]] [-like]" [[screaming (music)|screaming]] abilities.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2004/04/love_me_love_my_tantrums.html|work=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]|title=Love Me, Love My Tantrums|date=April 7, 2004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180708221854/http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2004/04/love_me_love_my_tantrums.html|archive-date=July 8, 2018|first=Amanda|last=Fortini}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://time.com/72542/courtney-love-you-know-my-name/|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|title=Hear Courtney Love Howl on 'You Know My Name'|author=Feeney, Nolan|date=April 22, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140504144233/http://time.com/72542/courtney-love-you-know-my-name/|archive-date=May 4, 2014}}</ref> Her vocals have been compared to those of [[Johnny Rotten]],<ref name="rotten">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/live-through-this-19940421|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140807194629/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/live-through-this-19940421|archive-date=August 7, 2014|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|title=Live Through This|date=April 12, 1994|first=David|last=Fricke}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,301841,00.html|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|date=April 15, 1994|title=Live Through This Review|first=David|last=Browne|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180930115748/https://ew.com/article/1994/04/15/live-through-this-2/|archive-date=September 30, 2018}}</ref> and David Fricke of ''Rolling Stone'' described them as "lung-busting" and "a corrosive, lunatic wail".<ref name="rotten" /> Upon the release of Hole's 2010 album, ''Nobody's Daughter'', [[Amanda Petrusich]] of ''Pitchfork'' compared Love's raspy, unpolished vocals to those of [[Bob Dylan]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14178-nobodys-daughter/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100628210153/http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14178-nobodys-daughter/|archive-date=June 28, 2010|work=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]|title=Hole: Nobody's Daughter|first=Amanda|last=Petrusich|date=April 27, 2010}}</ref> In 2023, ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' ranked Love at number 130 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=January 1, 2023|title=The 200 Greatest Singers of All Time|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-singers-all-time-1234642307/courtney-love-13-1234642975/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20241114042033/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-singers-all-time-1234642307/wanda-jackson-5-1234642911/|archive-date=November 14, 2024|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|language=en-US}}</ref>

She has played a variety of [[Fender Musical Instruments Corporation|Fender]] guitars throughout her career, including a [[Fender Jaguar|Jaguar]] and a vintage 1965 [[Fender Jazzmaster|Jazzmaster]]; the latter was purchased by the [[Hard Rock Cafe]] and is on display in New York City.<ref name="jazzmaster">{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161111114908/https://www.flickr.com/photos/rustysheriff/4373963261|archive-date=November 11, 2016|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/rustysheriff/4373963261/|work=Flickr|title=Courtney Love (Hole) Jazzmaster Fender Guitar – Hard Rock Cafe NYC|date=April 9, 2007}}</ref> Between 1989 and 1991, Love primarily played a [[Rickenbacker]] 425{{sfn|Yarm|2011|p=353}} because she "preferred the 3/4 neck",<ref name="hole tones" /> but she destroyed the guitar onstage at a 1991 concert opening for the Smashing Pumpkins.<ref name="cromelin">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22821393/the_los_angeles_times/|page=F9|title=Pumpkins, Hole Unleash Frustrations|date=December 19, 1991|author=Cromelin, Richard|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> In the mid-1990s, she often played a guitar made by Mercury, an obscure company that manufactured custom guitars,{{sfn|Bacon|2012|p=106}} as well as a [[Univox Hi-Flier]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://equipboard.com/pros/courtney-love/univox-hi-flier|work=Equipboard|title=Courtney Love's Univox Hi-Flier|access-date=February 6, 2017}}</ref> Fender's [[Vista Venus]], designed by Love in 1998, was partially inspired by Rickenbacker guitars as well as her Mercury.{{sfn|Bacon|2012|p=106}} During tours after the release of ''Nobody's Daughter'' (post-2010), Love has played a [[Rickenbacker 360]] onstage.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rockshot.photoshelter.com/image/I0000faG1oanue2A|work=Rockshot|title=Courtney Love at Shepherds Bush Empire|author=Ford, Kim|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161112154332/http://rockshot.photoshelter.com/image/I0000faG1oanue2A|archive-date=November 12, 2016}}</ref> Her setup has included Fender tube gear, [[Matchless Amplifiers|Matchless]], [[Ampeg]], Silvertone and a solid-state 1976 Randall Commander.<ref name="hole tones" />

Love has referred to herself as "a shit guitar player", further commenting in a 2014 interview: "I can still write a song, but [the guitar playing] sounds like shit&nbsp;... I used to be a good [[rhythm guitar|rhythm]] player but I am no longer dependable."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/may/08/courtney-love-kurt-cobain-bitch-zits-notes-hole-interview|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|title=Courtney Love: I wrote the Kurt Cobain 'bitch with zits' note|first=Charlotte Richardson|last=Andrews|date=May 8, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104143216/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/may/08/courtney-love-kurt-cobain-bitch-zits-notes-hole-interview|archive-date=November 4, 2016}}</ref> Throughout her career, she has also garnered a reputation for unpredictable live shows.<ref name=smith /> In the 1990s, her performances with Hole were characterized by confrontational behavior, with Love stage diving, smashing guitars<ref name=cromelin /> or throwing them into the audience,<ref name=pattydoc /> wandering into the crowd at the end of sets,<ref name=pattydoc /> and engaging in sometimes incoherent rants.<ref name=boston /> Critics and journalists have noted Love for her comical, often stream-of-consciousness-like stage banter.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.avclub.com/article/more-talk-less-rock-15-masters-of-onstage-banter-2016|work=[[The A.V. Club]]|title=More Talk, Less Rock: 15 Masters Of Onstage Banter|date=August 13, 2007 |author=Bahn, Christopher |author2=Earles, Andrew |author3=Hyden, Steven |author4=Modell, Josh |author5=Murray, Noel |author6=Phipps, Keith |author7=Keith Phipps |author8=Nathan Rabin|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180930081301/https://www.avclub.com/more-talk-less-rock-15-masters-of-onstage-banter-1798212092|archive-date=September 30, 2018}}</ref><ref name=powers>{{cite web|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/03/hole-at-sxsw.html|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|title=Hole at SXSW: Courtney Love offers one-liners worthy of the Comedy Store|author=Powers, Ann|date=March 19, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100609024423/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/03/hole-at-sxsw.html|archive-date=June 9, 2010|series=Pop & Hiss}}</ref> Music journalist Robert Hilburn wrote in 1993 that, "rather than simply scripted patter, Love's comments between songs [have] the natural feel of someone who is sharing her immediate feelings."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-11-09-ca-54735-story.html|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|last=Hilburn|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Hilburn|title=POP MUSIC REVIEW : Notes From the Underground: Hole Shows Surprising Depth|date=November 9, 1993|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221001072143/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-11-09-ca-54735-story.html#selection-1689.1-1702.0|archive-date=October 1, 2022|access-date=October 1, 2022}}</ref> In a review of a live performance published in 2010, it was noted that Love's onstage "one-liners [were] worthy of the [[The Comedy Store|Comedy Store]]."<ref name=powers />